Gennesis
Feminine · “origin”
Gennesis doubles a letter in an ordinary English word used as a name, and the doubling changes nothing. The book the word titles is called something quite different in Hebrew, and the reason is a filing system rather than a translation.
How old is the name Gennesis?
Gennesis first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Gennesis alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 700 people named Gennesis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gennesis most popular?
Gennesis peaked in 2014, reaching #3549 nationally. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Gennesis
The Hebrew names of the first five books of the Bible are not descriptions. They are the opening words of each book, used as a label — Bereshit, in the beginning; Shemot, names; Vayikra, and he called; Bemidbar, in the wilderness; Devarim, words. It is a filing convention, and it is the same one Mesopotamian scribes used for tablets a thousand years earlier: you identify a document by how it starts, because that is the part you can see on the shelf. The familiar English titles come from the Greek translation, where the books were given descriptive names instead — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy — which is why the English names sound like summaries and the Hebrew ones sound like the first line of a sentence, because that is what they are.
Meaning
origin; coming into being
A Greek noun meaning a birth or an origin, used as the title of the first book in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. It entered general English as a word for any beginning, and American families began using it as a name in the late twentieth century.
Pronouncing Gennesis
JEN-uh-siss
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The g is soft, as it is in the word, and the doubled n keeps the first vowel short, which it already was.
Nicknames for Gennesis
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 201444 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3549reached in 2014
- Change vs 2023
- +38.5%18 in 2024, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Gennesis in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Gennesiss among us
people named Gennesis are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Gennesis sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is an ordinary English word, so nobody has to be taught it.
- Gen comes off it cleanly and is a complete short form.
- Front stress on three syllables is a comfortable English rhythm.
- Genesis is the standard spelling and this will be corrected constantly.
- The doubled letter is silent, so the spelling must be given aloud every time.
- It is an abstract noun with a religious association, which suits some families and not others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gennesiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Gennesis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Gennesis in 2025?
- Gennesis is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Gennesis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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